The present study aimed to identify childcare teachers' job satisfaction depending on their sociological background. The study question of the present study is as follow.
How is childcare teachers' job satisfaction depending on their sociological back...
The present study aimed to identify childcare teachers' job satisfaction depending on their sociological background. The study question of the present study is as follow.
How is childcare teachers' job satisfaction depending on their sociological background?
The subjects of the present study were 250 childcare teachers, who were working at childcare facilities in South and North Jeolla Province. A questionnaire, which was originally used for a study by Moon Mi Seon (2007), was used as a study tool after being modified and supplemented. The SPSS win 14.0 program was used for data analysis. The t-test and a one-way analysis of variance (ANOVA) were conducted to find out, and the Duncan was used for a posttest.
The results of the present study are as follows.
First, examining if childcare teachers' job satisfaction varies depending on teachers' background factors, childcare teachers' job satisfaction showed no statistically significant differences in terms of their age, marital status, educational attainment, work experience, and number of class of the institution they were working for.
However, teachers' job satisfaction depending on the age of children of whom they were in charge, ranked in order of three years old, two years old, four years old, younger than two years, and five years old; regarding job satisfaction depending on work hour, teachers working longer than 11 hours showed higher job satisfaction than those working less than 10 hours; and teachers' job satisfaction depending on number of teachers' training or reeducation that teachers took, ranked in order of less than three times, none, and more than 4 times, indicating that teachers who took none or less than three times had significantly higher job satisfaction than teachers who took more than four times.
Second, examining the results on childcare teachers' job satisfaction depending on teachers' background factors, the job satisfaction showed no statistically significant differences in terms of their age, work experience, and number of class of the institution they were working for. However, married teachers had significantly higher job satisfaction than unmarried teachers, teachers with junior college degree or lower had higher job satisfaction than teachers with four years college degree and higher, and teachers in charge of three years old children had significantly higher job satisfaction than teachers in charge of five years old children.
And regarding job satisfaction depending on number of teachers' training or reeducation that teachers took, teachers who took less than three times a year had significantly higher job satisfaction than teachers who took none.
Third, examining the results on childcare teachers' job satisfaction with reeducation support system depending on teachers' background factors, the satisfaction with reeducation support system showed no statistically significant differences in terms of their age, marital status, educational attainment, work experience, and number of class of the institution they were working for.
However, regarding satisfaction with reeducation support system, the preference of frequency of reeducation, ranked in order of less than three times a year, none, and four times a year.
Fourth, examining the results on childcare teachers' job satisfaction with welfare depending on teachers' background factors, the job satisfaction with welfare showed no statistically significant differences in terms of their age, educational attainment, work experience, number of class of the institution they were working for, the age of children of whom they were in charge, and number of teachers' training or reeducation that teachers took. However, unmarried teachers showed higher job satisfaction with welfare than married teachers.
Fifth, examining the results on childcare teachers' job satisfaction with the relationship with the institution director depending on teachers' background factors, satisfaction with the relationship with the institution director showed no statistically significant differences in terms of their age, marital status, educational attainment, number of class of the institution they were working for, and number of teachers' training or reeducation that teachers took. However, teachers with work experience shorter than 6 years had better relationship with the institution director than teachers with work experience longer than 6 years, and teachers in charge of 3 years old children had better relationship with the institution director than teachers in charge of 4 years old children. And teachers working longer than 11 hours had better relationship with the institution director than teachers working shorter than 10 hours.
Sixth, examining the results on childcare teachers' job satisfaction with the relationship with the colleagues depending on teachers' background factors, satisfaction with the relationship with the colleagues showed no statistically significant differences in terms of their age, marital status, educational attainment, work experience, number of class of the institution they were working for, and the age of children of whom they were in charge. However, teachers working longer than 11 hours had better relationship with the colleagues than teachers working shorter than 10 hours; and teachers, who took more than 4 times of teachers' training or reeducation, showed significantly higher job satisfaction with the relationship with the colleagues than teachers who took more than three times a year or none.
Seventh, examining the results on childcare teachers' job satisfaction with pay depending on teachers' background factors, satisfaction with pay showed no statistically significant differences in terms of their age, marital status, educational attainment, work experience, number of class of the institution they were working for, and the age of children of whom they were in charge.
However, teachers working longer than 11 hours showed higher job satisfaction with pay than teachers working shorter than 10 hours; and teachers, who took less than three times a year of teachers' training or reeducation, showed significantly higher job satisfaction with pay than teachers who took less than 4 times a year.
The present study identified that childcare teachers' sociological background has an effect on subfactors of job satisfaction, and suggests direction and value of detailed study on childcare teachers' job satisfaction to multilaterally understand childcare teachers who are interacting with children all day long.